Re: problem when loading ip_tables

[Emmanuel Guiton <emmanuel@netlab.hut.fi>]

Hi!

I can refine my question.
Of course I cannot insert the module ip_tables in the kernel since... it 
already is. ip_tables is compiled directly as part of the kernel. That's 
for the error about insmod, but that was not the core of the problem anyway.

After a check, I don't think the problem comes from the aditional code 
I've written. So I may forget to do something silly but I can't find it.

Any help is welcome.


          Emmanuel



Emmanuel Guiton wrote:

> Hi!
>
> After having modified a few things in the nat part of the iptables 
> code, I was sent back to an old problem:
>
> modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables
> iptables v1.2.9: can't initialize iptables 'nat': Table does not exist 
> (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel need to be upgraded.
>
> I can't remember exactly when did the problem appear, but it may have 
> been after I had added something in ip_conntrack_standalone.c
> Anyway, I compiled again, again and again until now when I have a 
> brand new kernel (2.4.23) and iptables library (1.2.9, patched) 
> compiled. Still, I cannot get rid of that error. Moreover, if I try 
> manually to load ip_tables I also get an error
>
> insmod: ip_tables: no module by that name found
>
> while the module ip_tables.o exists. insmod finds without problem the 
> other modules like for example ipt_REDIRECT, ip_conntrack, iptable_nat...
>
> Any advice about that?
>
>         Emmanuel
>